by Philip K. Dick · Gollancz · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422697602
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«Minority Report» is the science fiction story collection by Philip K. Dick, published by Gollancz in hardcover (304 pages, in English).
This volume brings together several stories by Philip K. Dick set in dystopian futures where technology and social control turn against the individual. The title story, «Minority Report», presents a precrime police system that arrests offenders before they commit their crimes, until its own creator becomes a target of the system. The volume also includes other classic tales by the author, such as «We Can Remember It for You Wholesale», adapted to film as Total Recall.
The edition is part of the Gollancz S.F. collection. The main story, adapted to film by Steven Spielberg, was originally published in 1956.
Philip Kindred Dick was an American science fiction short story writer and novelist. He wrote 45 novels and about 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines. His fiction explored varied philosophical and social questions such as the nature of reality, perception, human nature, and identity, and commonly featured characters struggling against alternate realities, illusory environments, monopolistic corporations, drug abuse, authoritarian governments, and altered states of consciousness. He is considered one of the most important figures in 20th-century science fiction.
